Problem with applet? weuh sometimes I need applet too. What kind of linux do you use? I'm planning for Mint.

There are 2 kind of drivers that I need to verify first,1) Functional drivers. It's a laptop, with lot of custom hotkeys. My bundled driver set is for windows only.2) Machine drivers. I have an E450, both CPU and graphics are AMD's. I have read somewhere that the official drivers for linux is bad.

Problem with applet? weuh sometimes I need applet too. What kind of linux do you use? I'm planning for Mint.

I'm using ArchLinux here. And no, there are actually no big problems with applets, but you need to get it working. Usually there are many guides out there for any distro. If you're completely overwhelmed, then I guess gouessej could help you...

Linux works fine for Java development, so do Eclipse and Oracle Java 7 (except having to manually install it from Oracle site as Oracle have banned distro's from including it in their own repositories for some reason).

Applets work fine with Oracle JDK. However OpenJDK (with IcedTea-Web) which mostly comes bundled on distro's is still a little flaky.

Distro: OpenSUSE 12.2 + KDE4

Its a really nice time to dev on Linux, as it 'just works' for desktop use and the OS stays out of your way. Also one of the main reasons to dual boot (games) is less of an issue now as there are tons of games for the platform, Wine compatibility is really good and Steam is available.

I've been using Gentoo Linux as my main box for several years now without any major problems in regard to keeping it in working order. I'm able to get the applets to work in browser (both with Chromium and Firefox). As others posted, Eclipse works without issues. Of course, having the POSIX tool chains available at the command-line helps my productivity, too.

I keep my Windows XP machine for games and ensuring that code I write is cross-platform compatible. There's a few minor things that can be different between the two on a Java app.

There are 2 kind of drivers that I need to verify first,1) Functional drivers. It's a laptop, with lot of custom hotkeys. My bundled driver set is for windows only.2) Machine drivers. I have an E450, both CPU and graphics are AMD's. I have read somewhere that the official drivers for linux is bad.

Ninja editing there Sorry, but... beware:I've had experience with AMD boards. I was once going to buy one of the newer AMD's, but I've already heard there were problems with Linux and AMD... So I tried out my farther's old AMD and installing the AMD drivers. Everything worked at the first try... problem was the speed. It was almost as fast as the standard windows XP "drivers", when you haven't installed the drivers on windows yet

So yeah... AMD / ATI is probably a problem. But an AMD cpu is not too bad, afaik.

I think Mint is an excellent choice, my favorite since Ubuntu used Unity

Ubuntu 12.04 here. Unity is a beautiful desktop for development - just keeps out of the way and text search is excellent. I used Mint for years, but find it incoherent in comparison, and don't get me started on their approach to LTS - a number of bugs in the previous Mint LTS software that were never fixed.

If you go Ubuntu or derivative, my advice is stick to LTS releases for development.

ATI / AMD GPU drivers are... a painI switched to NVidia only because of Linux support

Never had much issue with AMD graphics - never owned NVidia so maybe I'm missing nirvana!

I use NetBeans with OpenJDK. Not had any problems with OpenJDK for years, and if you go for 7 you shouldn't have much issue - OpenJDK is the reference implementation after all. Don't use applets much or webstart so not sure what the support is like - the sooner applets die out the better anyway!

I couldn't stand Ubuntu's Unity when it first came out, but as of 12.10 it seems to be actually usable. Unfortunately it's not usable in Virtualbox -- 12.10 doesn't support the VBox 3d accelerator, so it uses the dreadfully slow llvmpipe, and if you do force enable the driver, it crashes virtualbox.

It seems to be a little better in VMWare player, though I don't know if it's using the 3d support there either. I'm also not a fan of the player's many annoyances like lack of snapshots, a toolbar that doesn't go away without editing the .vmx file by hand, lack of support for >3 mouse buttons without again editing the .vmx file, etc. But at least it works.

Problem with applet? weuh sometimes I need applet too. What kind of linux do you use? I'm planning for Mint.

There are 2 kind of drivers that I need to verify first,1) Functional drivers. It's a laptop, with lot of custom hotkeys. My bundled driver set is for windows only.2) Machine drivers. I have an E450, both CPU and graphics are AMD's. I have read somewhere that the official drivers for linux is bad.

I'm using Linux Mint with a Lenovo Thinkpad E520 and virtually everything just works (except horizontal scrolling and any 'special' keys (my e520 has a calculator, explorer, and search keys which only work on windows))I still dual boot because of gaming and Paint.NET (because I require absolute control over the pixels and do lots of messing around with the alpha channel to add precise shadows/color changes) but other than that, I use Linux.It boots quicker than Win7.Eclipse works. And OpenJDK seems to only launch my game when I run it from the command line (some error finding LWJGL.jar. The strange thing is I don't even have to put the classpath as an argument. It just finds it properly with java -jar "name".

Anyway, when you boot with the Linux Mint installation DVD, you can actually test most of the hardware in the 'sandbox' version before actually installing it to your Hard Drive (if you haven't read the install guide, it boots the OS from the DVD so nothing is installed, and you can mess around with whatever is on the basic installation and test the internet etc.)And if it doesn't work, don't install (or find the solution as firefox is available at that point)

Well I could never "work" on Linux until the Adobe Suite was released on Linux.All my video, audio and image editing happens there (I do use Sony Vegas, which of course has no Linux port either, but I can use Adobe Premiere easily)Thats really the main thing for my thats holding me back aside from games.

I also couldn't use it for work since ms excel is missing. Star office / libre office etc just aren't the same. I wish they would use exactly the same keyboard shortcuts and have the same menus and names but they don't.I use dual boot ubuntu, but I'm looking for a desktop that beats unity since I hate the vertical left aligned task bar.

I have been using various Linux Distros as my main system for years now. When I saw this post, and your mention of the AMD graphics card I feel I must give some advice.

AMD and Linux go together like balloons and tacks... I have an AMD HD Mobility 4200 discrete graphics card in my laptop (primary computer) and finding stable drivers for it has been a nightmare! ATI/AMD have dropped support for this card, as it has been fully optometry (their words) and only release patches for there old driver. This older driver only officially supports Linux Kernel version 3.4.x.x and Xorg 6.9 (I hope you know what both of those are) So to use their driver you have to keep your system honorably out of date. (Current Kernel version is 3.6, and Xorg is 11) or use a rebuilt driver for your kernel version. Which is kinda unstable. I will say from experience that, for AMD cards, Ubuntu and Linux Mint are the only major distros that the AMD driver will work with. Fedora and OpenSUSE are completely out.

I would check what card you have and look around to make sure it works on the Linux distro your thinking of installing. I wish you more luck than I had.

I currently use Linux Mint 13 Maya, and I have the AMD 12.6 Legacy Driver working. I don't know if I am daring enough to upgrade to Mint 14 yet...

Fiuh, after one full day struggling for all problems, finally I can see a full working OS, and successful import projects from old partition to new Eclipse (ADT Bundle). It was not easy, ATI driver didn't work at first and the sound quality is (still) poor. The sound is clear, but peak on higher volume. Maybe only the official driver who could solve this. But I was surprised with the plus, it recognizes almost all of my hotkeys, USB dongle modem (although the speed seems slower), and blazing fast speed! Mint 14 is far faster than Win 7!

I installed it twice. I encountered weird bug at first. After first restart, only blank screen appeared with no end. I thought the bundled graphic driver is enough, because it automatically detected my biggest resolution and apply it. Then I reinstalled it but made little change. I installed ATI driver straightly before any restart and fixed. However current stable driver is not support wide screen! So I installed the beta one on top of it (without removing the stable one) and solved.

The packages are also very complete. Unfortunately they picked LibreOffice over OpenOffice but that's okay. However there is not defragment app. The rest are fine.

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